Will Shaw

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Marked for Will Shaw

124 Edition

The Wellington Phoenix Gazette

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings11 Dec 2028

Alex Rufer goes up and wins it — 7.75

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.75 for the rest of it.

The dugout11 Dec 2028

Will Shaw says Wellington Phoenix went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match9 Dec 2028

4 matches without a win for Wellington Phoenix

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Wellington Phoenix are no longer polite ones.

Match9 Dec 2028

Wellington Phoenix are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match9 Dec 2028

Wellington Phoenix come up short against Melbourne Victory

Melbourne Victory left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad11 Dec 2028

Tempers go at Wellington Phoenix

Ramy Najjarine was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market11 Dec 2028

Wellington Phoenix sign Abel Walatee with one eye on the future

Nobody at the club will say out loud who this signing is for, which is how you know exactly who it is for. Abel Walatee has been brought in to take a shirt somebody is still wearing.

Squad11 Dec 2028

A row about effort at Wellington Phoenix

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Corban Piper was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout11 Dec 2028

Oliver Hunter: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

Back issues
107 Edition

The Wellington Phoenix Gazette

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad14 Aug 2028

Bill Tuiloma breaks a bone — 72 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout14 Aug 2028

Tze Xuan Loke frozen out at Wellington Phoenix

This is not rotation. Tze Xuan Loke has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Wellington Phoenix is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets14 Aug 2028

Wellington Phoenix rebuffed over Hinrik Harðarson

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. KFUM Oslo have kept their man, and Wellington Phoenix go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Corban Piper falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout14 Aug 2028

Corban Piper gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Niklas Jensen Wassberg still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Wellington Phoenix would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief

98 Edition

The Wellington Phoenix Gazette

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market12 Jun 2028

Michael Ruhs puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Wellington Phoenix, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets12 Jun 2028

Wataru Goto will not be coming to Wellington Phoenix

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Kawasaki Frontale is saying, and nobody at Wellington Phoenix is enjoying the guessing.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Yusuf Ayinde gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Yusuf Ayinde has just signed for Wellington Phoenix, and for once the answer mattered.

Market12 Jun 2028

Wellington Phoenix sell Nathan Walker for $140.0K

Nathan Walker has left for Western Sydney Wanderers in a $140.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets12 Jun 2028

Door shut on Trent Kone-Doherty

Wellington Phoenix asked and Molde said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market12 Jun 2028

Business is business: Manjrekar James goes

Central Coast Mariners paid $13.0K and Wellington Phoenix took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market12 Jun 2028

Brisbane Roar join the queue for Jayden Smith

Add another name to the list: Brisbane Roar have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jayden Smith. The answer from Wellington Phoenix has not changed — yet.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Ramy Najjarine falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad12 Jun 2028

4 Wellington Phoenix players away with their countries

The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 4 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.

In brief

89 Edition

The Wellington Phoenix Gazette

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad10 Apr 2028

Words at Wellington Phoenix training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ramy Najjarine is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Tempers go at Wellington Phoenix

Alex Nassiep was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout10 Apr 2028

No hiding place for Will Shaw

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Will Shaw, and the manager let it.

The dugout10 Apr 2028

Benjamin Mazzeo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Benjamin Mazzeo is on it.

The dugout10 Apr 2028

A door opens for Corban Piper

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Lachlan Bayliss: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Wellington Phoenix will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

The dugout10 Apr 2028

Manjrekar James knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Manjrekar James trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market10 Apr 2028

The shop window has Nathan Walker in it

Wellington Phoenix have let the market know Nathan Walker can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Boardroom10 Apr 2028

The Wellington Phoenix production line keeps running

23 graduates out of an academy now rated 11 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

In brief